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Unemployment and female labour : a study of labour supply in Kingston, Jamaica
- Title
- Unemployment and female labour : a study of labour supply in Kingston, Jamaica / Guy Standing.
- Author
- Standing, Guy.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1981.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HD6113.Z6 K557 1981 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- International Labour Office.
- Description
- xii, 364 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- ILO pub-WEP pub. Monograph comprising a WEP study on the labour force participation of woman workers in urban area Jamaica - finds that poverty, family pressures and rural migration forced women into low income employment leading to market effects in the sexual division of labour, and labour market segmentation, and discusses active and passive unemployment, impact of industrialization, educational level, demographic aspects and behavioural factors, etc., on the proletarianization of women. Bibliography.
- Subject
- Women > Employment > Jamaica > Kingston
- Unemployed > Jamaica > Kingston
- Labor supply > Jamaica > Kingston
- Working class > Jamaica > Kingston
- Working class
- Labor supply
- Social conditions
- Unemployed
- Women > Employment
- Vrouwen
- Arbeidsmarkt
- WEP
- labour force participation
- women workers
- urban area
- poverty
- family
- rural migration
- low income
- employment
- sexual division of labour
- labour market segmentation
- unemployment
- industrialization
- educational level
- demographic aspect
- behaviour
- women
- PME
- taux d'activité
- travailleuses
- zone urbaine
- pauvreté
- famille
- migration rurale
- faible revenu
- emploi
- division du travail basée sur le sexe
- segmentation du marché du travail
- chômage
- industrialisation
- niveau d'enseignement
- aspect démographique
- comportement
- femmes
- tasa de actividad de mano de obra
- trabajadoras
- zona urbana
- pobreza
- familia
- migración rural
- bajos ingresos
- empleo
- división del trabajo por sexo
- segmentación del mercado de trabajo
- desempleo
- industrialización
- nivel educativo
- aspecto demográfico
- comportamiento
- mujeres
- Kingston (Jamaica) > Social conditions
- Jamaica > Kingston
- Jamaica
- Jamaïque
- Genre/Form
- ILO pub.
- WEP pub.
- bibliography.
- pub OIT.
- pub PME.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- "Prepared for the International Labour Office within the framework of the World employment programme."
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 339-357.
- ISBN
- 0312832664
- 9780312832667
- LCCN
- 81009186
- OCLC
- ocm07597295
- 7597295
- SCSB-47112
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library